A corner store
I have been researching on the Sydney City Council archives today for corner stores on either of the Bayswater Avenues I have recently discovered, but couldn't find anything. So I decided to search for corner stores in the surrounding streets, thinking that the corner store in the painting may have actually been on the other cross street. I found the following picture on the pictures australia website:
This picture was taken on 35 July 1940, and is at the corner of Barcom Street (which runs parallell to the Bayswater Avenue in Darlinghurst) and Liverpool street. The description of the picture is as follows: "Corner store advertises McNivens Icecream and Mothers choice flour". This sounded strangely familiar, so I inspected the signs on the store in the painting, and sure enough the words "McNivens Icecream" can just be made out.
Could this be the store? It has the same 'castle-like' brickwork around the top, if though a little more detailed in this corner store. Maybe artistic license was used to simplify the store when it came to painting it.
This picture was taken on 35 July 1940, and is at the corner of Barcom Street (which runs parallell to the Bayswater Avenue in Darlinghurst) and Liverpool street. The description of the picture is as follows: "Corner store advertises McNivens Icecream and Mothers choice flour". This sounded strangely familiar, so I inspected the signs on the store in the painting, and sure enough the words "McNivens Icecream" can just be made out.
Could this be the store? It has the same 'castle-like' brickwork around the top, if though a little more detailed in this corner store. Maybe artistic license was used to simplify the store when it came to painting it.
posted by damo at 12:07 pm
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